If you had been thinking that rail transport in Lagos is dead and buried in Nigeria. Then you have got one more thought pending because that is not true. Because with the present drive of the federal administration to save rail transport in Lagos throughout the dimension of the country. Then we’re referring to super-fast rail systems as we can see in other western countries, not the slow and rickety rail-trains we have always known.
Lagos State is one of the many states in Nigeria that is working so hard to rejuvenate rail transport system, and to require dependence of rail travel as it used to be ten years ago. Still on rail transport in Lagos, let’s examine the other places you can visit by using a rail transport from Lagos, and those places in Nigeria that have a direct rail transport to Lagos.
Places you can travel from by rail transport in Lagos
- Rail transport in Lagos #From Ebute-Meta to Kano In November 2014, the federal government saved the conveyance of petroleum products from Lagos to Kano and a train with 20 wagons carrying about 900,000 liters of petroleum products which is equivalent to 27 road tankers leaving Lagos for Kano. More than 30 diesel tankers left Ebute-Metta via trains to Kaduna within the same month. But this is not restricted to cargo trains alone, several traveler trains have been going from Kano to Lagos and Kaduna among other northern destinations. On the trip to Kano, it is projected that the train might break at major stations at Abeokuta, Ibadan, Oshogbo, Ilorin, Minna, and Kaduna before arriving Kano.
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- Rail transport in Lagos #From Lagos to Jebba The Lagos-Jebba train expedition is also now completed to allow travelers to move from Lagos to Jebba in Niger State through train travel. A lot of traders selling physical goods will appreciate this because there is enough space to pack goods inside a train from Lagos to Niger State in the northern part of Nigeria. From where passengers could easily get into Abuja.
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- Rail transport in Lagos #Lagos to Port-Harcourt You board a train trip from Lagos to Port-Harcourt and some other states in the eastern parts of Nigeria such as Enugu, Aba and beyond. Sellers from the eastern part of the country enter Lagos with lots of viable goods can enter train if they wish to without many hitches.
Places you travel to by rail transport in Lagos
- Rail transport in Lagos #From Kaduna to Lagos It is possible to travel from different states of northern Nigeria to Lagos, which is the most commercialized city in the Nigeria. When traveling from Kaduna Railway Station to Lagos, by train the journey lasts about 650 minutes i.e. 10 hours and 50 minutes, but this could be something you will really enjoy if you could make good use of your time on the trip.
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- Rail transport in Lagos #From Abuja to Lagos If you are in Abuja the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria, you can easily board a train and take a direct trip to Lagos without any stress because it has been made possible by the federal governments for travelers to go on board on such trips from the Nigerian capital (FCT).
